MEMBERS
Many creative souls joined and departed offcast, which is impossible to keep track of all of them. Below you can find information about some current members.
Ozi Ozar was born in Tehran in 1993. They received their BA degree in Theatre Directing from Azad University in Tehran in 2017. During their time there, they were elected as head of the University Academic Association. They also studied Film Directing in a film school in Tehran. While doing their bachelor, they investigated the potential of comedy. Parallel to their research, they translated a few theatre pieces of which some got published. In 2017 they moved to Germany to complete their master at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in the field of Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research. In 2019 they have been invited to TheaterTreffen in the international forum program and had been since then working with different festivals such as TheaterTreffen, ZeitZeug, Theatermaschine and VViP. Currently they are developing their research based project on interactive theater influenced by combination of live arts and social medias.
| ARIA BAGHESTANI |
| WRITER | DRAMATURG |
Aria Baghestani is a playwright and screenwriter from Tehran and currently based in Frankfurt. He graduated from the University of Tehran in dramatic literature. He studies since 2018 Comparative Dramaturgy & Performance Research at Goethe University. He has worked over past years as both playwright and director in theatre and cinema. Since 2016 he's one of the members of offcast theater collective.
| JONATHAN KIRN |
| Dramaturg |
Jonathan Kirn gathered first experiences working in theater during internships at Theater Ulm and Staatstheater Stuttgart, among others in a production by Laurent Chétouane. During his Bachelor in European Studies he was working as assistant director at Staufer Festspiele for productions of Der Vogelhändler, Hänsel und Gretel und Die Zauberflöte. Since 2018 he is studying Dramaturgy at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Recently, he was part of the organisation team of VViP-Festival, a forum for unfinished works.
| Marque-Lin Pham |
| Actress/Performer |
In 2018, Marque-Lin graduated from NYU, NYU: Berlin & Florence, with a BFA in Acting and a double minor in German & Sociology. As a Göethe Goes Global scholar, she is now pursuing a double masters in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research at Goethe University and Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In Berlin, she curates and produces “MSG & Friends,” a monthly showcase dedicated to providing a platform for artists of Asian-heritage working in and around Germany.
| Jones Falkenberg |
| Stage designer |
Jones Falkenberg made their first performance experiences in theater class during high school. After working in a do-it-yourself bike repairing shop for several years, they decided to go deeper into theater. They made internships at Thalia Theater (Sebastian Nübling and Eva-Maria Bauer), at Maxim Gorki Theater (Sebastian Baumgarten and Jana Wassong) and with Rimini Protokoll (Stefan Kaegi and Aljoscha Begrich). In 2018 they started to study set-design at HfG Offenbach am Main under Heike Schuppelius and they are currently assisting in a production at HLTM Marburg working with Carola Unser and Anna Dischkow. Jones joined the offcast theater collective in 2019